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China
Asking the Right Question As China Rises
China is building its military, a recent Pentagon report to Congress argued , with the goal of becoming a "world-class" force over the next three...

Africa
Libya Is Trump's Latest Chance to End An 'Endless War'
It has been nearly a decade since the United States via NATO intervened in Libya with airstrikes contributing to the ouster and death of former...

Terrorism
America's War in Afghanistan: Fostering Anger, Not Security
A nighttime raid left a family home in flames. Two brothers and one of their wives were executed on the spot; the woman shot three times in the head.

Pentagon
The Pentagon's Secret, Permanent Wars
Two months after the lethal ambush in Niger that killed four American troops in October, U. S.

Middle East
Riyadh's Bad Influence on Washington
“I express today our condolences to our brothers in Egypt, as a leadership and people, for what happened in the past days,” Saudi Crown Prince...

Veterans
Veterans and the Public Agree: U.S. Foreign Policy Isn't Working
Albert Einstein is almost certainly not to be credited with the cliched definition of insanity as “doing the same thing over and over and expecting...

North Korea
Trump Must Listen to Jefferson, Ike, and Reagan and Reject Preventive War
After recent months of continued North Korean weapons development, culminating in July in an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test and this...

Military Strategy
Stop Wobbling the Dominoes in Syria
The launch of World War I is infamous for its deadly domino line of alliances, crises, and escalations, and it is that labyrinthine history to which...

Military Strategy
Ground War in Syria Would Be a Huge Mistake
As his spitballing press conference reminded us ad nauseam , President Trump is not ready to let the bygones of the election be bygones—and where U....

Iran
Mideast Self-Reliance Isn't a Problem—It's Our Ticket Home
The desperate situation in Aleppo, Syria, has long been the subject of international negotiations, but in recent weeks the United States has been...

Iranian Cyber Operations
By Michael Groen • RealClearDefense
Reflecting on an Epic Horse Campaign in the Mountains of Afghanistan
By Brian Glyn Williams • RealClearDefense
The Godfather of American Foreign Policy Realism Speaks to Today’s World
By Francis P. Sempa • RealClearDefense
In Pursuit of Nuclear Abolition
By Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
Innovation Alone Won’t Prepare the U.S. for the Future Battlefield
By Joshua Segal • RealClearDefense

26th MEU – U.S. Needs Crisis Response MAGTF
By Marine Corps Compass Points
The Influence of History on a Sea Power
By CDR Salamander
Navy Civilianizes Six Former Flag Billets, Reduces Six to Captains
By Mongilio, USNI N.
Raytheon's $8B Contract for Strategic Comms Terminal Modernization
By M+A El
America’s Maritime Moment Will Not Wait
By CDR Salamander
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